"A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous."

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Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.

— Thomas Hobbes